Rios v. Scott

PER CURIAM. *

Joshua Rios and Mary Canales (“the Relatives”) appeal from the district court’s grant of summary judgment based on qualified immunity. They filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against the defendants, Patti Sippel, a correctional officer at the prison where their relative Rolando Rios (“Rios”) was incarcerated, and several supervisory officials. The Relatives alleged that Sippel and the supervisory officials violated Rios’s Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth amendment rights when they failed to protect Rios from lethal attack by a fellow prisoner. The district court…